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Old 15th July 2019, 14:28     #241
Ab
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https://twitter.com/StateOfLinkedIn
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Old 16th July 2019, 07:57     #242
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Oh man that is true gold right there.
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Old 18th July 2019, 18:22     #243
Ab
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twitter is cancer

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/br...dsay-shepherd/
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Old 18th July 2019, 19:02     #244
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Liquid Water is wet?
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Old 24th July 2019, 11:01     #245
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DOJ reportedly to open antitrust review of big tech

Who knew that was coming?
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Old 23rd August 2019, 23:18     #246
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YUO=LAME

YouTube Dismantles 'Influence Operation' Targeting Hong Kong Protests, Avoids Discussing Its Reach

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YouTube has disabled some 210 channels it says were used in a coordinated “influence operation” spreading disinformation related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. However, the company refused to answer any questions on Thursday when asked how users had been successfully targeted.

So, I guess that's good. I mean...
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Old 10th October 2019, 10:24     #247
Ab
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Social media is cancer

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...raine-facebook
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Old 24th November 2019, 01:01     #248
Lightspeed
 
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ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019
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Old 21st December 2019, 14:21     #249
Lightspeed
 
Twitter removes nearly 6,000 Saudi-backed accounts for platform manipulation
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Old 1st February 2020, 22:28     #250
Lightspeed
 
Holy crap

I'm not sure how I feel about how easy it was to train TikTok to feed me an endless stream of big tiddy girls dancing big tiddy dances. Other than the obvious response.

Is that what's happened here? TikTok exposed my weakness? Or is TikTok mostly just... big tiddy girls?

It's so hard to tell these days. But I'm struggling to complain. Is this the system working?
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Old 11th February 2020, 08:06     #251
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Elon FTW.
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Old 11th February 2020, 09:21     #252
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Since the start of the year I've made a few changes regarding social media. I've deleted the Instagram app, deleted Twitter, and moved Facebook and Messenger to an inconvenient place on my device. I'd remove those too, but that's still the primary avenue for a lot of IRl friends to contact me.

And just between us girls, I haven't re-enabled my work emails on my device since the new year either. So far so good.

Dr. Cal Newport on quitting social media

It's Just Another Ted Talk, but it definitely inspired me to make a few changes with how I engage with technology and social media.
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Old 11th February 2020, 11:17     #253
Ab
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Quote:
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I'd remove those too, but that's still the primary avenue for a lot of IRl friends to contact me.
Just delete the fucking things. If those friends are actual friends they’ll find ways of staying in touch.
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Old 11th February 2020, 15:22     #254
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Elon FTW.
Sacha Baron Cohen FTW.

Elon is talking about what won't happen, Cohen is trying to make something happen.
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Old 28th April 2020, 09:42     #255
Ab
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These people are nuts. And Google is perfectly happy to facilitate it, because clicks.

https://apple.news/A8P_aeVdYTyawnhUlASdeLA
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Old 29th April 2020, 05:52     #256
crocos
 
Google et al makes things worse, but fuck-knuckles like this George Web can go run themselves through a woodchipper as far as I'm concerned.
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Old 18th May 2020, 15:38     #257
Ab
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kill all humans

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-...racy-cocktail/
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Old 18th May 2020, 22:28     #258
Lightspeed
 
Who or what might benefit from people becoming active in their suspicion about comms tech? Maybe what's happening in NZ and elsewhere is collateral damage of an attack meant to undermine somewhere specific?

Or is it just trolls all the way down?
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Old 19th May 2020, 10:51     #259
Ab
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Social media has accentuated everything bad about humanity and made us paranoid, terrified, and gullible. If it wasn't 5G it would be something else. Geo-engineering. Vaccines. Marxist preschool teachers. Something.
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Old 19th May 2020, 17:42     #260
Lightspeed
 
Social media is amplifying many things, including things that are going wrong.

We've worked so hard to separate parents from parenting. Kids go to shitty schools, come home to overworked parents. Parents who grew up with the same.

How does wisdom, discipline, insight transmit? Those who actively seek insight, who knows what they'll find in their naivete?
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Old 19th May 2020, 17:59     #261
Ab
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Here's another thing that, IMHO, is contributing to the death spiral: parenting has become such hard work, with so little in the way of support (unless you're really lucky), that good people are discouraged from becoming parents. What rational actor would sign on for this?
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Old 20th May 2020, 08:06     #262
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Unfortunately what this virus is showing us, is that humanity has built up a herd immunity to common sense and intelligence.

Lightspeed, all we can do is keep doing what we're doing. Instill the best of us in our kids, take the time to impart the wisdom we have inherited, and hope that enough like minded people do the same.

Keep trying to infect the gullible and less fortunate with knowledge, and pray that no vaccine for common sense is invented
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Old 20th May 2020, 14:07     #263
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Unfortunately what this virus is showing us, is that humanity has built up a herd immunity to common sense and intelligence.
Totally stealing that line.
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Old 20th May 2020, 15:04     #264
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Keep trying to infect the gullible and less fortunate with knowledge, and pray that no vaccine for common sense is invented
I see you too have watched Behind the curve and hoped for the best.
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Old 20th May 2020, 17:08     #265
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How an anonymous, untrue tweet about suicide spiralled out of control

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If the person who posted the tweet is an elected member with political connections, it would be concerning if she was anonymously sharing false information on suicide. It’s equally concerning, though, that her tweet was credulously picked up and magnified by several people with substantial followings.
We're fucked if apparent authorities have no idea about information discipline.
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Old 20th May 2020, 17:11     #266
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I see you too have watched Behind the curve and hoped for the best.
Not one i've seen i'm afraid. The flat earth conspiracy is one that has confounded me, it appears to be a desperate bid for non-conformity that accidentally established a base of die hard conspiracy theorists.
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Old 20th May 2020, 18:21     #267
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Quote:
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Unfortunately what this virus is showing us, is that humanity has built up a herd immunity to common sense and intelligence.

Lightspeed, all we can do is keep doing what we're doing. Instill the best of us in our kids, take the time to impart the wisdom we have inherited, and hope that enough like minded people do the same.

Keep trying to infect the gullible and less fortunate with knowledge, and pray that no vaccine for common sense is invented
I think of it the other way around. Scientific knowledge was immunising enough of the population that we had intellectual herd immunity. Each stupid person was insulated by several layers of educated people from any other stupid person. Then social media gave every stupid person a direct line to every other one. We connected enough of the stupid people that we lost herd immunity, and now we're sick.
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Old 20th May 2020, 18:24     #268
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I think of it the other way around. Scientific knowledge was immunising enough of the population that we had intellectual herd immunity. Each stupid person was insulated by several layers of educated people from any other stupid person. Then social media gave every stupid person a direct line to every other one. We connected enough of the stupid people that we lost herd immunity, and now we're sick.
The cynic in me appears to be holding the reins at the moment I guess
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Old 20th May 2020, 18:33     #269
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Then social media gave every stupid person a direct line to every other one. We connected enough of the stupid people that we lost herd immunity, and now we're sick.
It's an illness comorbid with many others.

For one we've got politicians with all eyes on them teaching us how to deflect challenges while offering no substance.
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Old 20th May 2020, 19:49     #270
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"He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself, not this or that particular man, but mankind"

The whole idea of the social contract that was the backbone of the american revolution was based around this premise. The Hobbesian concept of "state of nature" presupposes that the worst of humanity will come to the fore when left to it's own devices.

What i'm yet to see in Leviathan, is the situation of when a population knowingly and willingly appoint the worst aspects of humanity to the paramount role, a leader who openly incites a "war of all against all" and a return to "state of nature" but under HIS rule.

"bellum omnium contra omnes" (war of all against all)

While we aren't facing the same level of problems as America, it still seems as though our leaders are failing to address the base premise of who is fit to govern, and what their responsibilities actually entail.

Personally, I see democracy as a wartime solution, and post wartime solution. Once enough time lapses, and the horrors of war are no longer prevalent in the minds of the populace or the politicians. The desire to do whats right for mankind during war is simple. The desire to do whats right when there is no gun pointing at your population is somewhat harder. It also encourages leanings towards doing right for the "particular man" so as to better position yourself during your encumbency and to grease wheels for life after your time serving your country.

A reformed version of democracy needs to be established, one that harks back to the original premise, but in a modernised version of it's elegant simplicity.

And yes, i'm reading Hobbes, Leviathan. It's quite an interesting read if you're into that kind of thing
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Old 21st May 2020, 10:38     #271
Ab
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It's an illness comorbid with many others.

For one we've got politicians with all eyes on them teaching us how to deflect challenges while offering no substance.
agreed.
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Old 28th May 2020, 11:00     #272
Nich
 
Social media is indeed about to get fucked.

Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies: White House spokeswoman
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKBN2333BT

Lets celebrate!

hopefully we won't see those godawful banners on every site "Hey, looks like you want the truth on COVID19, we know the truth so here's what you should be reading / watching"
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Old 28th May 2020, 11:16     #273
Cyberbob
 
You know that's in direct response to Twitter finally doing something about Trump's misinformation, yea?

Trump threatens to shut down social-media platforms after Twitter put a fact-check warning on his false tweets
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Twitter had long been criticised for allowing the president to spread conspiracy theories and smears against opponents despite its policies against the promotion of disinformation.

Twitter has declined to take action against the president for the messages about Scarborough, but on Tuesday for the first time it put a fact-check tag on some of Trump’s tweets.

The president wrote two tweets claiming “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.”

Twitter tagged each of the two messages with a blue exclamation mark and warning message, linking to articles in The Washington Post, CNN, and other outlets that debunk the president’s assertion.
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Old 28th May 2020, 15:12     #274
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Social media is indeed about to get fucked.

Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies: White House spokeswoman
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKBN2333BT

Lets celebrate!

hopefully we won't see those godawful banners on every site "Hey, looks like you want the truth on COVID19, we know the truth so here's what you should be reading / watching"
Great way to lose millions in tax revenue. Watch all the social media platforms move their headquarters out of the U.S.
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Old 28th May 2020, 16:55     #275
Ab
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Trump will have forgotten all about this by tomorrow.
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Old 28th May 2020, 17:16     #276
Trigga*happY
 
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Trump will have forgotten all about this by tomorrow.
Normally i'd agree... but he can't help himself when it comes to twitter, and if he see's "fact checker" on bunches of his posts, he's the type to see it as a pissing contest.
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Old 28th May 2020, 19:09     #277
Ab
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No, I mean he'll have forgotten about being pissed today and blathering on about executive orders and regulation, and tomorrow he'll be pissed about something else.
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Old 28th May 2020, 19:38     #278
Lightspeed
 
Word is we'll see an order within the coming hours. Which I really hope is the case. It could be truly beautiful to see unfold.

Trump is an addict threatening to call the cops on his dealer.
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Old 29th May 2020, 20:42     #279
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Social Media, Trump, Oils my Gears.
Where should this stuff go.

This is getting good, i need some popcorn
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...fying-violence
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Old 30th May 2020, 01:29     #280
Lightspeed
 
Something is gonna come to a head, that's for sure. The whole drama is a bit mind bending, I can't get my head around all the angles.
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